J’khand: 4 poor children sleeping on road come under wheels of truck; driver absconding

The deceased were children of labourers.

Ranchi, April 4: In a heart-wrenching incident, four children sleeping on a road were killed in an accident, after a truck ran over them in Palamu's Hariharganj, Jharkhand, on Monday night.

According to news agency, ANI, the deceased were children of workers engaged in a road construction. Since the labourers and their family members have no roof over their heads, thus they sleep near the construction site. The driver of the truck is yet to be detained by the police, as he immediately fled the accident site.

The bodies of the children covered with clothes remained lying on the accident site, while police registered a formal complaint. The accident brought back the memories of hit-and-run case where Bollywood actor Salman Khan's car crashed into men sleeping on a pavement outside a bakery in Mumbai's Bandra on September 28, 2002. One person was killed in the accident and four were injured.

According to statistics, every year, the number of road accidents in India increase by 8 per cent. If this trend continues, 2.6 lakh deaths will be reported by 2030. People aged between 15 and 29 are most vulnerable to mishaps.

Recently, the Supreme Court banned liquor shops within 500 meters of highways to restrict the number of cases related to drunk driving.

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